K M Bosy
While I work within the traditions and parameters of experimental, documentary and structural film, and the three landscape genres, my practice can be thought of as a process of radical documentary. My formative years were spent studying science and then painting in Toronto and London and my artistic project has naturally inclined to materiality and presence and the function of artworks in the online space. The way in which the body is positioned in the landscape is affective and of the moment and much of my work documents paths in public green space using photography, video and installation. While presence is at the centre of my artistic project rather than using the body metaphorically or representing it, I document the landscape in its actuality in the experience of material and process, durations and affects.
James Lingwood observed, ‘we learn to interpret the conversations associated with photography, cinema, painting, street signs and so on,’ and our knowledge of these systems ’lead us to believe that the world is a fixed and orderly place’ (in Kester, Rachel Whitread’s House, 1995).
Biography
Currently I move between London and Toronto. I studied painting at OCA(DU) and then in Florence, Italy. Later, I moved to London and studied printmaking and painting at The Slade School of Fine Art. Now as a PhD candidate at RCA, I (re)consider the landscape, the nature of site and conversations associated with media, in the context of art practice. I use photography, drawing and video installation and other media within my art practice and research.
I am a founding editor on a team continuing to develop an online academic research journal supporting artistic and design research. This experimental platform itinerant space disseminates research practice. itinerant space is supported by the School of Communication at RCA. itinerant space, Issue 2: iterations was published in July 2024.
Practice-based Research
PhD Royal College of Art, London, England, My research title is, Inside here: dispersal as a strategy in landscape based critical-documentarist art practice Keywords: space, video, landscape, structural film, experimental film.
Founding Editor on a new online academic research journal at RCA. itinernant space is an experimental platform launched in 2021 and supporting research practice in Art and Design research. 2020 ongoing. As well as disseminating research, itinerant-space supports PGR students who wish to gain experience in publishing.
Education
PhD, School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, 2025.
Thesis title Inside here: dispersal as a strategy in critical-documentarist landscape-based art practice. Thesis submission Sept 2024.
HDip Painting and printmaking, Slade School of Fine Art (1988)
Graduate studies, Painting, OCA Studio, Florence, Italy (1984)
AOCA Diploma, Ontario College of Art, Fine Art, Painting, Toronto, (1983)
Selected Recent Exhibitions
Forthcoming events in 2026:
Paths, trees, and Sailing Masts The Walkative Society. RCA Research Group. Join us for a discussion on: use value, and imperfection in the time of climate change, Feb 22.
Scripting the Moving Image The Writers’ Room, Florence Trust, London in March.
London Art Collective, ‘Nostalgia and Selfhood Becoming’ at Fitzrovia Gallery, London. October 6 - 11, 2025. This invitational exhibition included my medium format still photography at Fitzrovia Gallery in London and was sponsored and supported by London Art Collective and curated by Ruoru Wang.
Lingering at Tiderip Gallery, London, 4 October 2025. Many thanks to Tiderip gallery for 'Lingering' a special closing event for 'She Paints Still'. Thank you also to Yu Xiao and to the team, Huang Xin and others, for their generous assistance. It was a pleasure to share in this event.
Noctilucent at Espacio Gallery, London, November 2025. Invitational exhibition. Many thanks to all those who organised and sponsored the exhibition and to Espacio Gallery. It was a pleasure to be invited to join this exhibition which included two works from my 'the sky is taught by falling series' of photographs.
GLUE book fair, ICA, London, Sept 2025 Many thanks to the team at GLUE book fair for organising a great event. Thanks also to Bleet! zine for including my writing, and The Wild Parlour for their generous response. It was great to see you all at ICA, London. Summer work: documenting a wetland forest; editing an artist book for GLUE book fair with The Wild Parlour;
Many thanks to the team at Bleet! zine and their including my writing 'Double Image'. It was great to meet them in person at Glue, ICA in September.
Happy to have been part of Osman Yousefzada’s ‘making space’ event curated by @osmanstudio at @cookelathamgallery on 7th May. My serial work ‘home is where the heart is’ video, ‘green as grass’ was included.
Research Biennale 2025, Royal College of Art, Battersea, London. included a video installation with a large scale medium format photograph.
Ars Electronica Art Festival, Linz, Austria, screened my video installation the sky is taught by falling series installation, in September 2023.
EVA London 2023, the sky is taught by falling video series was screened in a pop-up exhibition of works by artist researchers during this conference in July.
Hopscotch, RCA PhD Research Biennale 2023, screened my video installation the sky is taught by falling (2023) video installation, image above, at The Copeland Gallery in June.
Studio open event at Park Studios, 2023 a double screen installation in the series of the sky is taught by falling, and 35mm photographs from this series.
Without Boundaries screened my video series private (2022) and included my graphite works on mylar of studio tools, White City, RCA, 2022.
Itinerant space screens my vault series video online, published 2020 and was within the soft launch of the pilot issue in 2021. Link to this video here
Another Land, enclosed line installation, 35 mm photography, sand, vitrine, Kingston Museum, London, 2019.
I Scared My Computer, screened water drawing a video installation during Know Your Home, a cross campus programme of exhibitions and events, RCA, 2019.
Intentions: Conversations, Experiences and Knowledge, screened my vault series video and a collaborative sound installation Script. Catalogue ISBN 978-1-910642-30-6.
31ºC, ASC Gallery, exhibited Shelter, a collaborative video installation. This collaboration developed Exchange Project and Script for Intentions in 2017.
‘are we recording now?’ an intervention using sound for the Design Museum’s opening weekend, London, 2016.
Of Improvisation, a pop-up exhibition at Apiary Studios, London, 2015, launched Inside here by kmbosy (Android and iOS).
Inside here, marks the start of my PhD research. A long CV is available on request. I’ve shown my work in London for many years, starting out as a gallery artist at Creaser Gallery on Portobello Road and then at Mercury Gallery on Cork Street in the 1990s. Since then my work had been held at the Eagle Gallery in Farringdon.
Selected Presentations and links to published papers
Book Launch in May 2024 at Peckham 24 for murmurings, murmurings, She Speaks Up book publication. Image contribution.
itinerant space, founding editor, issue editor for issues 1 and 2, launch for itinerant space, Issue 2: iterations, July 2024.
itinerant space, a iterative (book) publication launch July 2024.
Implying the Surface, Guest-curator, Animation Studies 2.0, Society for Animation Studies, February - March 2024.
She Speaks Up book publication. Image contribution (2023).
What do you think about when you think about skies? co-authored article, written and image contributions, itinerant space, 2023.
PROVA, Journal 5, book launched in 2022.
vault, itinerant space, Issue 1: Pilot, launch of this new academic research journal, 2021.
Media languages: video practices, co-authored paper, EVA London 2020.
PROVA, Sick Love, Journal 5, RCA Arts and Humanities research journal online, vault, written and image contribution, p. 188-189, RCA, 2020.
Daydreaming space and the digital monument, paper published in Estudos em Design, 2019.
Signs of expression, co-authored paper presented at CIDI, Brazil, published in InfoDesign Journal, 2019.
Multiple means of expression made available by digital media, co-authored paper, EVA London 2019.
we all look at the same sky, Film 7, Intentions: Conversations, Experiences and Knowledge, RCA, cover image, image and written contribution.
Inside here by kmbosy, online artwork launched at Of Improvisation, Apiary Studios, London, 2015.
Editing, Peer Review, and Committees
RCA PhD Research Biennale 2023, organising committee member for the physical space; this Biennale also has an online component.
itinerant space, issue editor for Issue 1, The Pilot Issue & Issue 2: Dispersal, Royal College of Art, 2021 to present.
A founding editor of academic research journal itinerant space, Royal College of Art, 2020 ongoing.
Peer Review member of the team for Estudos em Design, the peer review team for this academic research journal published in Brazil, 2020 to present.
Peer Review Program Committee member for EVA London Conference, 2020 to 2023.
Conference Chair, CONGIC, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2019.
Conferences / Presentations / Webinars / Workshops
UKCGE Conference 2025. The editorial team of "itinerant space" facilitated a workshop as part of UKCGE 9th International Conference on Professional & Practice Based Doctorates, held at the RCA on 7/8 April 2025.
Book launch for itinerant space, book publication, RCA, in July 1st, 2024. In my role as an issue editor, a launch is planned for itinerant space, Issue 2: Dispersal, RCA, online in June 2024. Discussions include a symposium or performative showcase of works for the book publication launch later in 2024.
Research Presentation to Entanglement Research Lab, School of Arts and Humanities, RCA, March 2024.
Zine workshop, prototype book iteration for itinerant space, co-lead by issue editors, SoC, Royal college of Art during the Doctoral Training Programme, Feb 2024.
Silent Disco, Introduction to Performance workshop with Boston University students. February 2024 on Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath.
itinerant space, workshop on peer review, Issue 2, Open Call, RCA Research Biennale, Copeland Gallery, 2023.
itinerant space, Doctoral Training Programme, RCA, July 2021.
Soft-launch for itinerant space Issue 1: Pilot, during RCA Research Biennale 2021.
itinerant space, event, Research Open Studio, researchers from across RCA were invited to join this collaborative project, RCA, 2020.
Media languages: video practices, webinar, Encontro em Design Contemporaneo, LabDesign Contemporaneo, Universidade Estadual Paulista Campus Bauru, Brazil, 2020
Delay, itinerant space workshop, Methods of Intent research group, RCA, 2020.
EVA London 2020
CIDI & Conference Chair for CONGIC, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2019.
EVA London 2019
Trajectories II exhibition & events, workshop What is public space? Waterman’s Art Centre, 2019.
Research student teaching and workshops Leading workshops and presenting to incoming RCA MA Students: Cybernetics and over-trust, webinar and panel discussion, 2020; The ad hoc and the organized in public space, workshop, RCA, 2019; The Commemorative Document and the Image Bank, workshop, RCA, 2019; Curatorial, Inspirations and Influences, workshop, RCA, 2019; Movements and Trends, workshop, RCA, 2019; Public Space & Exchange, workshop, RCA, 2018; Public Space & The Manifesto, workshop, RCA, 2018.
Intentions: Conversations, Experiences and Knowledge, offered opportunities for testing practice-based research. RCA, White City, 2017.
What is public space? a zine workshop event at RCA, Research Summer School, 2017.
longer CV available on request
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